Andrew Nesbitt

RE: https://mastodon.social/@andrewnez/116974498919761167

This one really touched a nerve, I’ve had a number of emails from real maintainers today sharing their stories that end up being way too similar 🥲

Seems that Google AI Overviews still doesn't quite understand satire.

@andrewnez I mean Google meet reality is rarely done as Satire because it is so rarely happening. Usually it is reality meet Google and reality has to deal with the shitshow that Google did. Rarely the other way around

I could not write this homebrew thread as a satire piece if i wanted to, real life is much more cursed: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/issues/289444#issuecomment-5050717674

Interview with a Maintainer

https://nesbitt.io/2026/07/24/interview-with-a-maintainer.html

This is like the mother of all escape hatches: https://github.com/dtolnay/semver-trick

RE: https://mastodon.social/@andrewnez/116974498919761167

Omfg 😅😂🤣 🤔 😦😧😥😭😭😭

Interview with a Maintainer

https://nesbitt.io/2026/07/24/interview-with-a-maintainer.html

The packages.ecosyste.ms database migration is complete, but now have 1.2M jobs in the queue to chew through 😅

i don’t usually respond to these kinds of emails, but this one made me so fucking mad that i blacked out and regained consciousness with this in my outbox

Fun satire blog post coming tomorrow, and by fun I mean way to close to the bone that it could almost be true 😬

Today is a big day for us! Last year, we had a family member diagnosed with cancer. It hit us hard financially and halted our work. While one of us was busy taking care of family, we decided it was best to use the time building a new version of another app. We are excited to finally release Pastebot 3!

https://tapbots.com/pastebot/

We are also hard at work on both Ivory and Phoenix. It’s tough being a small team sometimes, but we are really excited about what’s to come!

Looking at both totals:
GHS: $100M in 7 years (~$14M/yr). OSC: $42M in 9 years (~$4.7M/yr)
~$20M/yr combined = payroll of one mid-size software company, for the whole ecosystem
$100M across 70k maintainers = ~$1,400 each, lifetime
Corporate share: ~$5-6M/yr, from every company in the world combined

Similar looking data for Open Source Collective:

- $41.9M in total contributions to OSS collectives
- 1.8% ($763k) flows collective-to-collective at all
- 0.17% ($69,647) is in an actual loop
- The loops are dependency funding: eslint/jest/vite/webdriverio/verdaccio/11ty, parcel/rspack/swc

So on both platforms, 98%+ of open source funding is net new money in, not recirculation

Ever wondered how much circular funding there is within GitHub Sponsors?

Active Mutual Pairs: 155
Total Mutual Pairs: 845
Accounts Sponsoring Each Other: 255
Sponsorship Triangles: 42
Sponsorship Clusters: 26
Largest Cluster: 27 accounts

https://sponsors.ecosyste.ms/reciprocity

You can replace "LLM" with "JavaScript" in https://blog.codeberg.org/protecting-our-floss-commons-from-llms.html and it all still makes perfect sense.

Ongoing slowness with packages.ecosyste.ms today due to some migrations taking longer than expected, a few more hours i think.

Patch release of git-pkgs is out, mostly to keep @mikemcquaid happy: https://github.com/git-pkgs/git-pkgs/releases/tag/v0.18.1

The code and data for this post is over here: https://github.com/andrew/package-name-prefixes

Package Name Prefixes

https://nesbitt.io/2026/07/23/package-name-prefixes.html